Materials & Research
A colorful bio-based fiber spun on an in-house wet-spinning line — with color built into the material itself.
Develop a biobased fiber for textile applications that avoids the water-intensive dyeing conventional fibers depend on, with color intrinsic to the material.
Through iterative experimental design, arrived at a viable colorful fiber-spinning solution from a bio-based matrix and biomimetic proteins. Built an in-house, bench-scale wet-spinning line to polymerize and collect the fibers.
Produced vivid, colorful fibers with color built into the material — removing the water-intensive dyeing step entirely.